"Sailor?"

Emperor Wanli's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this, and then he shook his head helplessly, looking at Li Hongyu with a solemn expression, "Li Compilation, the formation of a water division is a bottomless pit, and I now even have to levy new salaries from the people for the military expenses of Liaodong, not to mention the water division!"

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't want the court to do a penny, as long as the emperor decrees to open overseas trade, the minister can build an invincible sailor for the Ming Dynasty."

When Li Hongyu heard this, he bowed his hand to Emperor Wanli and said solemnly, "In addition, three years after the opening of overseas trade, the minister can hand over two million taels of silver to the internal treasury every year. ”

"Two million taels!" A look of surprise suddenly flashed on Emperor Wanli's face, you must know that the tariff in Yuegang is only 35,000 taels a year at most, and Li Hongyu opened his mouth to be 2 million taels, which has increased by more than 60 times.

Moreover, Li Hongyu can also set up a water division for the Ming Dynasty at the same time, which is really beyond the expectations of the Wanli Emperor, once Li Hongyu can successfully form a water division, then the Ming Dynasty's national power will be on a higher level.

"Your Majesty, the formation of the water division requires a lot of money, and the ministers can only come up with so much." Li Hongyu knew from Emperor Wanli's reaction that he had been moved by his words, so he deliberately looked helpless, and said with a wry smile, making outsiders think that he felt that Emperor Wanli was not satisfied with the two million taels.

"Compiled by Li, what you said is not child's play, I think you should go back and think about it, and reply to me in two days."

Emperor Wanli came back to his senses when he heard this, and after a deep groan, he said to Li Hongyu with a serious expression, although what Li Hongyu said was very tempting, but Emperor Wanli naturally knew that it would take a lot of hardships to achieve it, and he really couldn't believe that Li Hongyu could do it.

"Your Majesty, the minister has been thinking about it for a long time, and although this matter is difficult, it is not without a chance of winning."

Li Hongyu naturally knew that Emperor Wanli did not trust what he said, so he bowed down and solemnly said, "Your Majesty, everything is difficult at the beginning, rather than letting the minister stay in the capital to do learning, the minister would rather go out and do something, even if he fails, he has no regrets." ”

"You, you, you're too bookish!" Emperor Wanli didn't expect Li Hongyu's attitude to be so resolute, so he couldn't help but shake his head and said with a sigh.

Other officials have tried their best to stay in the capital as Beijing officials, but Li Hongyu is the opposite, he actually wants to go to the local area to charge into battle, where is there a little bit of the prestige of the new champion?

However, Emperor Wanli was impressed by Li Hongyu in his heart, and he was even more serious, he liked that kind of pragmatic official.

Because the officials in the Ming Yamen in the Wanli period were already very bloated, the phenomenon of people floating in things naturally inevitably occurred.

In order to improve the operational efficiency of the yamen, the Wanli Emperor implemented the strategy of "streamlining the administration of the army" and eliminated some official positions in the yamen, causing many officials to lose their official positions.

Facts have proved that the Wanli Emperor's approach was right, and the various yamen still operated smoothly after the great abolition of the imperial court, which really saved a lot of money.

In addition, unlike the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, due to the increasingly fierce party struggle in the Ming Dynasty since the beginning of the Wanli Dynasty, and the fact that the civil official group has a lot of restrictions on the Wanli Emperor, the Wanli Emperor is very disgusted with those officials in the court who only know empty talk and dumping all day long.

Among them, the most disgusted official of the Wanli Emperor is none other than the Ming Dynasty's speech officials, that is, the imperial history of the Imperial Procuratorate and the six departments of the Imperial Procuratorate, in his opinion, these speech officials are not only the same party and the same as the other, but also to add to his blockage, and there are fewer and fewer speech officials who do practical things.

Therefore, Emperor Wanli deliberately did not fill the vacancy for the speech officials, if it were not for the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty and the fact that the speech officials involved the basic interests of the civil official group, he really wanted to abolish the speech officials.

According to the Ming Dynasty, the imperial history is one hundred and ten people, and the number of people in the matter is fifty, and the imperial history and the matter began to produce a vacancy after the Wanli Emperor was in power, and even half of the quota was insufficient at the end of Wanli.

In addition, perhaps because the fight for the country angered the Wanli Emperor, or perhaps the Wanli Emperor was fed up with the party strife in the court, the officials of the six ministries, that is, Shangshu and Shilang, also had a shortage, and there was a matter of one person holding two or three ministry positions at the same time.

For example, in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, Li Ruhua, the secretary of the household department, concurrently served as the secretary of the ministry, and managed the affairs of the two most important ministries and yamen of the six ministries of the Ming Dynasty.

It is worth mentioning that Li Ruhua, who was born in Henan, belongs to a rare neutral faction in the court and does not belong to any party, perhaps this is an important person who can be in charge of both the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households.

As for the vacancy of more than 40 prefects that later generations talked about and was used to "prove" the Wanli Emperor's neglect of government, as long as the Wanli Emperor was not stupid, how could he do this, could he not hope that there would be some chaos in the local area? You must know that the prefect is in charge of the affairs of a place, and once it is vacant, the entire government will be in chaos.

In fact, in addition to the serious vacancies of speech officials in the Wanli Dynasty and the phenomenon of concurrent officials in various ministries and courts, there were no vacancies in the subordinate officials and local officials of various ministries and courts.

Sometimes, the tenure of some officials in the major ministries and local yamen in the capital expires, which requires the officials to appoint and dismiss the successors, and the officials cannot quickly elect personnel, and they need to go through a certain process, but also have to go through a power game, which leads to a certain amount of time.

Therefore, at this time, there will be a window period for official positions, that is, there are no officials to take office, resulting in empty official positions, but this period will not be long, and new officials will be appointed and dismissed after the process of the Ministry of Officials is completed.

Therefore, if the situation is special, there will indeed be more than a dozen or even twenty prefects in the same period of time.

However, it should be pointed out that it is not that the imperial court does not appoint and dismiss these prefects, but that the appointment and dismissal procedures have to go through the process, after all, such an important position as the prefect will definitely alarm all forces in the imperial court, and it will take a lot of time to go to the capital to report on their work and then rush to the next place of service.

The reason why Li Hongyu proposed to go to Liaodong to rescue Yehebu, set up a naval division and carry out maritime trade was not only for the future planning and layout, but also to curry favor with Emperor Wanli.

Most importantly, Li Hongyu had to do this, because he knew that Emperor Wanli was not long away from his death, and if Emperor Wanli did not settle the matter of carrying out sea trade and forming a sailor, the young Emperor of the Apocalypse would not be able to suppress the ministers to promote these two things after he ascended the throne.

Obviously, the officials of the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party would definitely prevent the development of maritime trade, which was not only related to their pedantic thinking about commerce, but also involved entanglements of interests, and the ancestral system formulated by the Hongwu Emperor alone was enough to make the Emperor of the Apocalypse retreat.

Therefore, in order to break the ancestral system of Emperor Hongwu, only a highly qualified king like Emperor Wanli is needed, who can be said to be the emperor with the highest martial arts in the history of the Ming Dynasty except for Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle, which is enough to suppress the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

"Compiled Lee, what do you want from me?"

Li Hongyu's hard work was not in vain, Emperor Wanli obviously liked his drive and momentum, so after a deep sigh, he asked with a serious expression, it is obvious that Li Hongyu could not set up a sailor empty-handed, let alone run overseas commerce empty-handed.

"Your Majesty, the minister hopes to set up a business bureau and a tax bureau, and only after the establishment of these two yamen can overseas business be carried out."

Li Hongyu pondered for a moment, then looked at Emperor Wanli quietly and said, "The minister implores the emperor to send down a decree to allow the minister to select officials from the tax bureau and the commercial bureau from the capital. ”

"Set up an exam?" Emperor Wanli couldn't help but have a look of surprise on his face when he heard this, he also thought that Li Hongyu would transfer people from the officials of the imperial court yamen to form a business bureau and a tax bureau, but he didn't expect to pass the examination to recruit.

"Your Majesty, scholars are light on business, I'm afraid that none of those well-educated people are willing to come to the business bureau and the tax bureau, and the business bureau and the tax bureau are related to the national tax, which is very important to the Ming Dynasty."

Li Hongyu bowed down when he heard this, and explained in an orderly manner, "The minister does not want the tax bureau and the business bureau to be occupied by some greedy people for money and profit, so he is ready to select young and promising people from the juzi to take on this important task." ”

"The Commercial Bureau and the Tax Bureau are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households?" Emperor Wanli couldn't help but bow slightly, with a thoughtful look on his face, and then asked in a deep voice.

He thinks that Li Hongyu is right, the officials of the Ming Dynasty have always despised businessmen, and they despise tax officials to the extreme, so the officials who are willing to go to the business bureau and the tax bureau either want to make a fortune, or they are sent by a certain faction of the imperial court to be undercover agents and do not seek their own interests, and the business bureau and the tax bureau will definitely be in a mess.

Generally speaking, tax matters were either under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs or managed by local yamen, and the emperor's internal funds were only responsible for collecting taxes and not operating.

For example, the three cities of the Ming Dynasty were under the jurisdiction of the local political envoys, and the income was owned by the political envoys, and the Yuegang Customs was initially under the jurisdiction of the local yamen, and later because the local states and counties competed for tariffs, the Wanli Emperor then sent a tax supervisor to Yuegang, making the Yuegang tariff become the "southern treasury of the Son of Heaven".

The Wanli Emperor even had to hold the Yuegang Customs, which had an annual tax revenue of only 30,000 taels at most, in his hands, which was enough to see the lack and singleness of the Ming Emperor's internal financial resources.

Therefore, the management of the commercial bureau and the tax bureau is either handed over to the household department or the local local yamen, in the view of the Wanli Emperor, considering that Li Hongyu will try to avoid the interference of the local yamen, there are ten ** tax bureaus and commercial bureaus will be under the jurisdiction of the household department.

"Your Majesty, I implore the Emperor to set up a Customs Department, which will take the Taxation Bureau and the Commercial Bureau under his command, and specialize in overseas trade matters, and will only be responsible to the Son of Heaven, and will not be subject to the yamen of other ministries and courts."

Li Hongyu had already prepared for this, and said in an orderly voice when he heard the words, "The minister implores the emperor to let Princess Shouning's Mansion Ran Juma serve as the chief officer of the Customs Department, and the minister is willing to assist him in building the Customs Department and forming the Daming Water Division." ”

"Ran's horse?" Emperor Wanli's eyes flashed with a look of surprise, he didn't expect Li Hongyu to push Ran Xing out to serve as the chief officer of the Customs Department.

However, Li Hongyu's positioning of the Customs Department made Emperor Wanli very satisfied, so that the officials of the Customs Department would become the emperor's people, and the emperor also indirectly caught the sailor in his hands.

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